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By R.V.D Smith An Ojibway tale. In addition to the numerous traditions of a religious nature which are handed down from one generation to another, by the North American tribes, they have many others relating to their wars, their distinguished warriors, and their most prominent hunters, with their sayings, doings, nd adventures. These traditions or legends in the lapse of time are subject to many changes, and almost necessarily receive some fresh embellishments from each new narrator. And although each of them may have been founded on facts, so prone is the Indian mind to weave in something of the marvellous and supernatural with every transaction of their lives, that it becomes a matter of no astonishment to find their accounts of known facts so blended with the miraculous, as to cast a shade of doubt over the whole narration. Yet are they received with implicit faith by the Indian, and the very Interpolator who has drawn freely from his own imagination to make some old legends the more interesting, comes in time to believe the fictions of his own coinage.